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At 10:28 AM 1/13/99 -0700, Eric wrote:
>
>Before you respond, please review the Topics
>page in the TECHWR-L site. Specifically, check out
>http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/questions.html
>which covers this precise question. Then, if you have
>something new to add, please go ahead and post it.
I didn't see this there... I always ask everyone I meet:
"How long have you been here?"
"What, exactly, do you do here?"
This gives me more of a context to understand the questions they are asking
me, and a sense of how much perspective they have on the history of the
company and what work conditions have been like over time.
martha
--
Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson} mailto:editrix -at- slip -dot- net
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?"
--Hillel, "Mishna, Sayings of the Fathers 1:13"
